TY  - JOUR 
TI  - La Organización Municipal en la América Hispana. Los “Pueblos de Indios”
PB  - Universidad Icesi
PY  - 2017
issn 1657-6535
AB  - The Spanish dominion over the vast American territories demanded a powerful
repopulation action and its effective settlement in territory. In the sixteenth and the
seventeenth centuries, new settlements were created, which had to be urbanized
and were ruled by a local government. The birth of the municipality had clear
medieval Castilian roots; its creation adapted to the differences of the territory.
There were two parallel situations, because of the segregation between the Hispanic
and the Indian communities. Unlike the situation in the metropolis, with a powerful
royal interventionism in the town councils, the municipalization in the American
territories created an active local law, characterized by the popular participation
in the local government both in the Hispanic and the Indian communities. The
grouping of the natives to ease their «civilization» process –through the so called
reductions– started a municipality’s creation process, which allowed the settlements
to acquire a legal status, with their own organization and government.
KW  - Organización municipal
KW  - Cabildos indigenas
KW  - Indios
KW  - República
KW  - Pueblos indígenas
UR  - http://www.icesi.edu.co/revistas/index.php/precedente/article/view/2446
ER  -